Published Writings of Wilbur and Orville Wright - NASA's History Office

U.S. Congress. House. Joint Resolution Commemorating
the Fortieth Anniversary of the First Airplane Flight by
Wilbur and Orville Wright. [Washington, D.C.:
Government Printing Office, 1943], 2 pp. (78th Congress,
1st Session. H. J. Res. 175).
Introduced by Mr. Harry P. Jeffrey of Ohio, Oct. 20,
1943; referred to the Committee on the Library;
passed House, Nov. 24; referred to Senate Committee
on Commerce, Nov. 26; passed Senate with amendment,
Dec. 3.
Broughton, J. Melville. The Fortieth Anniversary of the
Flight of a Heavier-than-Air Machine. Science, Nov. 5,
1943, vol. 98, pp. 400—401.
Published also in Pegasus, Dec. 1943, vol. 2, no. 6,
p. 12 and abridged U.S. Air Services, Dec. 1943, vol.
28, no. 12, p. 30.
Text of proclamation of the governor of North
Carolina, issued October 6, 1943, designating
December 17, 1943, as Kitty Hawk Day.
U.S. Congress. House. Commemorating 40th Anniversary
of 1st Airplane Flight by Wilbur and Orville Wright.
Report to Accompany H. J. Res. 175. Submitted by Mr.
O Toole. Nov. 16, 1943. Washington, D.C.: Government
Printing Office, 1943, 1 p. (78th Congress, 1st Session.
House. Report 869.).
Arnold, Henry H. They Gave Us a New World. U.S. Air
Services, Dec. 1943, vol. 28, no. 12, p. 21.
Tribute to the Wright brothers.
Bonnalie, Allan F. The Wrights Solved All Fundamental
Problems of Flight. U.S. Air Services, Dec. 1943, vol.
28, no. 12, pp. 25—26, +illus.
Author draws comparisons between modern aeroplanes
and the Wright 1903 aeroplane.
Forty Years of Heavier-than-Air. National Aeronautics,
Dec. 1943, vol. 21, no. 12, p. 14.
Announcement of plans being made for the fortieth
anniversary of the Wright 1903 flights.
Foulois, Benjamin D. Two Vital Problems of the Wright
Brothers. U.S. Air Services, Dec. 1943, vol. 12, no. 12,
p. 22.
Genesis. Trade Winds, Dec. 1943, vol. 7, pp. 7—8, 14,
+illus.
Part of fortieth anniversary of 1903 flight issue.
Kelly, Fred C. The Revolution at Kitty Hawk. What the
Achievement of the Airplane Owed to the Past and
Presages for the Future. Technology Review, Dec. 1943,
vol. 46, pp. 83—84, 96, +illus.
Aeroplanes and Flights
Brief survey of the accomplishments of some of the
Wright predecessors whom the author asserts contributed
inspiration but little technical help and
knowledge to the brothers.
Lewis, George W. Contributions of Wilbur and Orville
Wright to Aeronautical Sciences. U.S. Air Services, Dec.
1943, vol. 28, no. 12, pp. 19—20.
Tribute to the Wrights on the fortieth anniversary of
their first power flights, December 17, 1903.
Martin, Glenn L. Let Us Pause to Honor Orville and
Wilbur Wright. U.S. Air Services, Dec. 1943, vol. 28, no.
12, p. 23.
Published also in Martin Star, Dec. 1943, vol. 2, p.
17, with a photograph of Orville Wright and Glenn
Martin at an early aircraft show.
Merner, Mary. Kill Devil Hills. Airlanes, Dec. 1943, vol.
8, no. 12, pp. 2—3, +illus.
Milling, T. De Witt. Orville and Wilbur the Immortal
Brothers. U.S. Air Services, Dec. 1943, vol. 28, no. 12,
p. 21.
Reminiscences by one of Orville Wright s pupils in
1911.
North Carolina Honors the Fathers of Flight. Pegasus,
Dec. 1943, vol. 2, no. 6, pp. 13—14, +illus.
Reed, Thomas R. Wrights Were the Discoverers of
Secret of Flight. U.S. Air Services, Dec. 1943, vol. 28,
no. 12, p. 24, +illus.
Wright Brothers. First of the Skymasters. Aviation and
Yachting, Dec. 1943, vol. 11, no. 7, pp. 19, 33, 48, +illus.
U.S. Congress. Senate. Commemorating 40th Anniversary
of 1st Airplane Flight by Wilbur and Orville Wright.
Report to Accompany H. J. Res. 175. Submitted by Mr.
Bailey, Dec. 3, 1943. Washington, D.C.: Government
Printing Office, 1943, 1 p. (78th Congress, 1st Session.
Senate. Report 568).
Owen Russell. The Dream That Found Wings. New York
Times Magazine, Dec. 12, 1943, pp. 8, 45, +illus.
Wright fortieth anniversary article.
Joint Resolution Commemorating the Fortieth
Anniversary of the First Airplane Flight by Wilbur and
Orville Wright. United States Statutes at Large, 1943,
vol. 57, pt. 1, p. 605.
Approved December 17, 1943.
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